tax reform
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Doug Lamborn: Republican tax legislation ‘puts a stake through the heart of Obamacare’
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U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn cheered word Friday that congressional Republicans had secured enough votes to pass a massive overhaul of the nation’s tax laws that President Donald Trump has said he hopes to sign before the end of the year but that Democrats say favors corporations and the wealthy without much helping everyone else. “The…
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White House: Walker Stapleton among state officials backing GOP’s overhaul of nation’s tax laws
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Colorado Treasurer Walker Stapleton, a candidate for governor in next year’s election, is among dozens of Republican state officials backing efforts to overhaul the nation’s tax laws, the White House announced a day before congressional Republican leaders said they’d reached a deal on the legislation. “I applaud and support the efforts of federal lawmakers and…
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Passion and Pinocchios run high as Colorado leaders react to tax reform
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After Republicans in the U.S. Senate passed its version of a tax reform bill early Saturday, passions, rhetoric and threats rippled across the Colorado political landscape this weekend, proving hyperbole is the mother’s milk of politics. Republicans, predictably, argued that lower taxes, especially on corporations, is the salve the economy needs to help lower and…
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U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman sets Wednesday telephone town hall to discuss ‘critical issues’
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U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, an Aurora Republican, plans to hold an hour-long telephone town hall Wednesday evening, his office announced, as tax reform legislation barrels its way through Congress and a deadline for a crucial spending bill looms. The conference call is scheduled for 6:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Register here to receive a call at the…
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SLOAN: Two fundamentally opposed views on tax reform
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The current free-for-all over how best to alter the nation’s tax code is drawing out some familiar daggers, and revealing important differences over not only how and which reforms are to be made, but what the very purpose of the tax system is in the first place. U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Colorado, wrote an op-ed…
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With taxes, Congress shouldn’t just rearrange the deck chairs
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Tax reform is all the rage right now, just as it should be. We have a complex web called the tax code that is nearly 75,000 pages long, including all the guidelines. At 39.1%, our corporate tax rate – combining federal and state – is the highest in the industrialized world. And our individual tax…
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Rep. Cory Gardner to talk taxes at town hall in Pueblo Monday
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Look who’s back in town. Sen. Cory Gardner, once vilified by liberals for not holding big, rally-style town hall meetings where they could yell at him, is holding his sixth since August Monday in Pueblo. The gathering with the Republican senator from Yuma, is at the Pueblo Convention Center from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.,…
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Environmentalists criticize Sen. Gardner for his vote to allow Arctic oil drilling
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WASHINGTON – Colorado U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner set off an angry response from environmentalists this week with his vote to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Gardner is a member of the Senate committee that approved a bill to sell leases to oil companies that want to drill along Alaska’s northeast coast.…
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Colorado’s Cory Gardner seeks some tax equity for pot purveyors
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A lot of the workaday tax credits and deductions that businesses routinely use to trim Uncle Sam’s take are still off-limits to Colorado’s legal marijuana enterprises. That would change under legislation Colorado Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner signed onto this week as a co-sponsor. As noted in a press release from Gardner’s office, the legislation,…
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FEEDBACK: Tax reform, health care reform and George Brauchler
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Tax-reform legislation threatens nonprofits On behalf of the Colorado Nonprofit Association, I want to share that the Colorado Nonprofit Association board of directors has officially stated its opposition to the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act (H.R. 1) now pending in Congress. Our board’s official statement can be found here: https://www.coloradononprofits.org/news/colorado-nonprofit-association-opposes-house-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act/nov-13-2017 In its current form, the bill…
